inspector: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md

release is a skill for Claude Code from modelcontextprotocol/inspector. It costs 95 tokens per session (6,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A procedure for publishing an Inspector software release, including version changes, merges, tags, and GitHub Releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for preparing version releases on the project's main development lines and publishing them through GitHub.
Why use it?
It clarifies the order of release steps and the checks that publishing jobs require.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

This is modelcontextprotocol/inspector's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on inspector itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything inspector configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to modelcontextprotocol/inspector. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/main/.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for release

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for release

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,136 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 93
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 121
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00095 $0.06136
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.02454
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00614

Measured 10d ago against content hash e6092bfbfbca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

release scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/release/SKILL.md · 411 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago Changed · +12 lines e6092bfbfbca
  2. 17d ago Changed · +133 lines · +1 tokens per session 18636ea01d32
  3. 24d ago Changed · +5 lines 91a94d638f4b
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines ffcb9a0bc70d
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +130 lines · +38 tokens per session b8cf32044086
  6. 1mo ago First seen · 122 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f7722508240a

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release is a skill published in the GitHub repository modelcontextprotocol/inspector (11,143 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 6,136 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.